Sangha of Auspicious Companions

August 8, 2021

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The Leadership Imperative

“Oren Lyons, seventy-six, is a wisdom carrier, one of the bearers of a variety of human tradition that cant easily be reduced to a couple of sentences. One reason he and the tradition for which he is a spokesperson isn’t more widely known is that he doesn’t actively seek forums from which to speak. If someone asks him, however, about the principles behind the particular Native American tradition of which he has, since 1967, been an appointed caretaker, he is glad to respond. He chooses his words carefully, and occasionally, these days, there is a hint of indignation in his voice, as if time were short and people generally willful in their distraction.” What follows is a powerful conversation between Barry Lopez and Oren Lyons. { read more }

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Listen to Oren Lyons share the story of how he first learned about his relationship to Earth here. { more }

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August 7, 2021

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On the Road with Thomas Merton

“In May 1968, Christian mystic Thomas Merton undertook a pilgrimage to the American West. Fifty years later, filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and writer Fred Bahnson set out to follow Mertons path, retracing the monks journey across the landscape. Amid stunning backdrops of ocean, redwood, and canyon, the film features the faces and voices of people Merton encountered. The essay offers a more intimate meditation on Mertons life and the relevance of the spiritual journey today.” { read more }

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Take time this week to orient towards that “center and source of indefectible life,” that Merton alluded to.

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August 6, 2021

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I Created the Repair Cafe

Throwing our broken appliances and other items away seems to be the only thing to do if they have become unusable, but Martine Postman in Amsterdam wasn’t satisfied with this symptom of wasteful over-consumption. She was determined to find a way to do more then watch dumpsters overflowing and created the concept of Repair Cafes. Once a month her coffee shop provides space for repair experts to work with people who want to fix broken goods of all kinds – from broken computers to children’s toys to old watches. Portman’s creative idea has spread to over 70 countries around the world and offered an alternative to our throwaway consumer culture. { read more }

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Consider these questions: How can you create less waste or re-use what you have used once? What are the things in your life that are broken that can be creatively repaired, whether they are things, relationships or ideas?

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August 5, 2021

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What Do Gardens Mean?

“This much is clear: people calling themselves artists and who are called artists by others — are making gardens and calling it art, or are making art in which the making of gardens is part of what they are calling art. And for a very long time, people who may not call themselves anything, have been making gardens that other people call art. Further, it would be greatly surprising if all this were not to continue. And given this time of profound meddling with nature and the dreadful results we are experiencing, the garden might be, in all its forms, the place best suited for calling us back to our senses — a role of gardens long established and held dear, whether consciously or not.” In this lovely, introspective piece, Richard Whittaker dives straight into the heart of a powerful, and curious question: What do gardens mean? { read more }

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What do gardens mean to you? Take a moment to capture your spontaneous response to this question in some form.

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August 4, 2021

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Reframing Our Relationship to That We Don’t Control

A palliative care physician, Dr. B.J. Miller brings design sensibility to the art of living until we die. He learned to see life as a “creative enterprise” and largely redesigned his own physical presence after an accident in which lightning struck him with 11,000 volts, leaving him without both of his legs and part of one arm. Tune in to his wisdom on how we can reframe our relationship to our imperfect bodies and all that we don’t control. { read more }

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For more inspiration, join this Saturday’s Awakin Call with BJ Miller: ‘How Not to Waste a Good Existential Crisis.’ More details and RSVP info here. { more }

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August 3, 2021

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Live a Life Worth Living

“On 19 March 2018, almost five years after being diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer, thirty-eight-year-old Julie Yip-Williams died, leaving behind a husband and two daughters. Her early years had been anything but easy. Born blind in Vietnam, at two months of age she was almost euthanised on the orders of a grandmother who deemed her to be defective; years later, as an older child, she sailed to Hong Kong with her family and hundreds of other refugees in search of a more peaceful life, eventually settling down in the US where her life improved drastically. She was soon given partial sight by a surgeon, studied at Harvard, and became a successful lawyer, but then, in her thirties, she was struck down by the illness that would kill her. It was then that she began to write what would become a posthumously published memoir, The Unwinding of the Miracle. In July 2017, a year before she passed away, Yip-Williams wrote the following letter to her young daughters.” { read more }

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Read an excerpt from “Unwinding of the Miracle,’ here. { more }

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August 2, 2021

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How to Recapture Your Imagination

“If you had the spyglass, you could see anything in the world. If you had the spyglass, there was nothing from which you couldn’t glean information. It had mesmeric power over the people. It had been created by a king who gave it to his daughter, to be used for the strangest of courtships. If you wished to marry her, you had to achieve only one thing. You had to disappear. You had to become a magician of the invisible.” In this excerpt from his new book, Martin Shaw, a celebrated storyteller, draws on myth and metaphor to direct our gaze away from the screen and toward the wonder of the world. { read more }

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For more inspiration, watch this short film, “The Lindworm”, in which Martin Shaw narrates an ancient tale that poses the question: What have we exiled that returns to us in fury? { more }

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